Join organisers from Brisbane Free University and The Resistance for a collaborative and hands on workshop to further explore the themes addressed in ‘An Alternative Economics’.
We gather on the unceded lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples. We ground our conversations in the material conditions of continuing colonisation and unceded Indigenous sovereignty; reckoning with what that means for political education and mutual aid projects in this place, and the question of alternative economies on stolen lands.
In this one hour workshop, we come together to speculate on, and map out alternative economies of education and knowing: collaborative, relational, common-ed, place-based, accountable, and oriented toward justice. We consider what counts as knowledge, the political and economic imperatives at stake in the commodification of education, and the age-old question of who gets to ‘know’, and under what conditions.
By exploring alternative visions for a education and knowledge economies that can better sustain us, we’ll consider the values and ideas that underpin existing knowledge and education systems, and the political conditions necessary to transform or reimagine them.
‘An Alternative Economics’ brings together a group of Australian and international artists who each use their artmaking to explore and expand on the creation of value. Guided by the idea of the circular economy and its compelling counter-narrative to the untenable model of eternal growth, each work in this exhibition offers a provocation to make us reconsider what is ‘counted’ in our society and why.
